"A pleasure...a really sensitive, lucid account of his personal
liberation...a penetrating analysis of the political premises and
goals and philosophical background of the movement."
--"The New York Times"
"The one to read...may very well be the most intelligible and
best written books on the subject."
--"The Minneapolis Tribune"
"When Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation" was first published
in 1971, The New York Review of Books, hailed it as the only work
that bears comparison...with the best to appear from Women's
Liberation. Time wrote that, among the whole tumble of homosexuals
who have come out of the closet', perhaps best among these accounts
is a book by Dennis Altman.
Long out of print, "Homosexual: Oppression and Liberation"
remains a seminal work in the gay liberation movement. Altman
examines the different positions promoting gay liberation, and
recognizes the healthy diversity in these divisions. Elaborating on
the writers of the emergent movement--James Baldwin, Allen
Ginsberg, Christopher Isherwood, Herbert Marcuse, Kate Millett, and
others--Homosexual suggests that we can nurture a common,
progressive movement out of our shared sexuality and experience of
a heterosexist society. Today, in the age of AIDS, ACT UP, and
Queer Nation, the possibility of such commonality is of critical
importance.
Jeffrey Weeks's new introduction places Homosexual: Oppression
and Liberation in its historical context, while the author's new
afterword examines its significance in light of today's lesbian and
gay movement.
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